... BIRMING(HA CATTLE AND DOG SHOWS. LOCAL AWARDS. The 46th annual show of cattle, gheep,poultry, and agricultural produce at Bingley Hall, Birmingham, was opened on Saturday, and though the total number of entries, 3,961, is slightly, below some previous shown, the falling off doe3 not affect the main classes, and is chiefly acconnted for by the entire absence of pigs, owing to the prevalance of ...

... l t-yASOGNS, WORKJ A p.OMA?' S LETTER TO WOMEN. 'The winter fashions in bonnets r ape'sr so far, to be more eccentric t than beautcful Bonnets of orange -elvet with beefeater crowns have 50ear-mre in ttie shop windows, and ?? ,j Ph jet. I should fancy the com- - will he aole to stand this trying 0 ;o mentin the vivid shades of green ?? . ted in the same ?? will be few Bright red, particular ...

... : MAY.DlY sO ,. - ?? I [Y The sm shone briiantly to welcome the firtt of g May. A gentle westerly wind blow, and attracted by the fine _weather and the hope of seeing processiTs: of gaily capaisoned horses and -vehicles worthy vf thlir steeds, large numbers of people con gted in sote as. of the principal thoroughfares of - the city. Theie i was litte to reward- their. 'patience. Orgained D, ...

... THE PALACE OP VARIETTED9. . At a speiei~y convened meeting of the Watch Conm- tnittee yestesday, Mr. (. Scott, manarger of the Palace of Varieties, made a fresh application for a dramatic licence for' that building; and Mr. ..J P. Haxdntcre, of the Comedy T'heatre, asketd for th' renewval of hislicence. Mxtr. Alderman Marl;, chairman of the colamitee, presided. The application on behalf of MNr ...

... i | CONDUCTED BY - I ,HONORARY MEMBERS OF THEt GUILD OP GENTLENESS. T1IE BISHOP OF M&NCHEST19R. Tim BISHOP ov WAKEFIELD. TEx BISHOP op SODOR AD MAN. ALDxamAN A. MARSHALL (Lord ?? of Mtn. Chester). ' I Ainapsm~r PETER KEEVNEY (ox-Mayor of Salford). BRoIr HoN. gm JAMES FERGUSSON, h.P. Sri WILIJAM A. ROULDSWORTH, M.P. Co0,. THE Hol. FRANCIS BRIDGEMAN, MP. JACOB BRIGHT, EsQ., M.P. I JOHN WILLIAM ...

... Increased interest was given on Tuesday to the Sportsman's Exhibition, at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, by the addition of the 34th Kennel Club show of dogs, chiefly those used for sporting purposes. The pointers numbered 29 only, and but 11 greyhounds were entered. There were 65 setters, o7 beagles, and 31 basset hounds, among them being a grand dog named Napoleon II., a year old, which ...

... TE N1W MEMEH FOR THE AYR DI810SN. Mr. James Somervell, of Sorn Castle, Miuchline, Ayrshire, was born in 1845. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1870. For some years he was en- gaged in journalistic work in London, and on the death of his father succeeded to large estates in Ayr- shire. He is a magistrate of that county, and has held a ...

... BY T. R. THRELFALL, tih SECRETARY LABOUli ELECTORAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT ne1 BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 15t pri My innocent remarks last week upon shop Sul assistants have brought me a deluge of letters.H Happily, with scarcely an exception, they are of an Su appreciative character; and they are unanimous in to asking my advocacy. Strange to say, many of the Y correspondents had been members of a ...

... ?? I The annual show of the Worslev and District |a Agricultural Society was held on Saturday in s Worsley Park. It is one of the smallest of the v Lancashire shows, but it is one of the pleasantest to t attend. The woodland beauties of the Earl of d Ellesmere's estate extend all around, and were very I grateful to the eyes of the hundreds of visitors who I went for an outing solely. From the ...

... ;. ' , [CaPnIGT.] , . .. , .. .. . : ..I: - - - - Iw, 1 ? . , `? I ! ?? - I I ., I I- T. ANS VAn A: Tl . ,, ' -~ . .1 ,Frj g - 1 S WA. IO tiS F ROMWU TH E FR0NTc fY EiR!NE$'T GLJANVILIJE, Author of The Fossicker, A Fair Colonist, The Golden Rock, A Ih-d9 Yn; ett. -ii, IL -IOIORLOG ?? ,, ' i a ?? e Of s WAS riding out of Ladysinith! with my Basuto boy, Pete; ifsoing a- little down in the ...

... f 0'TH-IE 'CILIMIREN'S HO.0.UR. -1 V K C&N D3U OTED BY : o fr faro fomymy windpw there grows a noole beech. Torough the sumrrmri lith been like a floeiof lg': , th e foliage having been 0 thick. that, above,'the.h' poiit at which the braaches begin, one could hardly get a glimpse of trunk or st em. I have reason to believe that a pair of sparrows made; their nest in the fork of two Of its ...

... [bOFlX'IGHT.] :| By LOUIS BEUIE, Author' o Py Reef and Palma The Ebbing of tie Tide, Pacific TalesO etc. - Eastward, from 'the coast of Nvew Guinea, there lies a large island called, on the maps,, New Brit- ain- the native name of which is. Beera. It is nearly three hundred miles iL length, and, in parts, almost sixty in width, and excepting thre north-eastern portion,. now settled by ...